 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review for Beelzeboot Which is available currently when I'm recording this on the shutter streaming service for horror movies and shows So you know where you can get it if you're seeing this when I put it out Those cycle off every now and then but this one shouldn't cycle off It should stick around because it is in a shutter original, which I'm kind of confused about Because IMDB says this is a 2017 film Which would lead me to believe that it was a film that was done and then picked up by shutter And then I feel like those are usually put as shutter exclusives versus originals being where they're like, oh, here's money Let's let's do this film and then it's done for shutter specifically. So on IMDB It's like 2017 and on shutter it says 2019 which they just put it on there recently So I don't know what the disconnect is. I'm not quite sure but since it is a shutter original It should stay on the streaming service Real quick. I did want to say a few things two things the first thing is I apologize for my voice I'm fighting something at the moment. So it also might kind of affect my energy level So usually I'm more animated more Energetic on these reviews. So I apologize for that, but I'm gonna do my best The other thing I need to throw out there is a real big disclaimer with this review And that's that I am not a big fan of certain things in film And there are two things in this particular film that I don't like overall. So that may very much Impact my review of the film. So I'm just throwing that out ahead of time And I'll kind of talk about that a little bit more later This film was directed and written by Emilio Portes It's a film it says on shutter that's in English, but it's kind of a mix I'd say it's more in Spanish than it is in English at least in the first half And then I feel like that kind of switches more towards the end It becomes more in English and less in Spanish in the second half. So it's a mix So you can't go off of what it says on shutter. I think they just kind of pick a language I haven't ever seen them put one on that says like English Spanish. So they had to pick one So just know that going into it. So there are some subtitles I know there's some people out there who are just like I can't do subtitles just can't do it I don't understand that only if I understand it if it gives people migraine headaches because I know there are people who When they're trying to read on the screen, it really gives them headaches. So I understand that but other than that I don't get it. I think it's just like I don't like it Which you're missing out on good film if that's the situation, but you know This film stars Tobin Bell. He's the only actual big name in this film and I gotta be honest He's the best part about this. He does a very good job Excellent work for the most part. The acting is fine. It's solid enough. The writing is okay The there's some moments though, especially earlier on in the film where the dialogue is a little bit weird It kind of doesn't feel realistic People say some things to each other and I'm just like nobody would ever say that or that just sounds weird or it's I don't know. So so the dialogue is a little iffy So I kind of wonder if the solid acting could have been even better acting if the dialogue was written better But who knows now, you'll never know those types of things. It's just too hard to tell Okay, so early on in this film it goes straight for the jugular with doing some pretty horrific stuff it's pretty gory it's pretty intense and Because of the subject of that what's actually going on in the very first scene before the title card It may turn a lot of people off I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who watch that scene before the title and are just like nope I'm not doing it because they're there's something that's a big trigger and it continues at least for the first Like quarter to one-third of the film. I'm probably more like a quarter of the film There's more of that type of thing going on in it and I know this is a very big trigger with people and horror films This particular thing. So I'm relatively okay with it. I will say that the way it was done was very tense It was very intense. It was horrific. It was scary. So I mean they did a good job Carrying that out, but I just know there's some people are gonna see it and be like nope and just turn it off So can't blame you. You know, everyone's got their their things So this actually okay, so now I'm gonna get to the things I was talking about with my disclaimer in the beginning That are gonna kind of sway me now I know I say I do and no spoilers, but it spoilers. I do Many spoilers to the extent that whatever is in the synopsis because that's just available without anyone watching the film So this is heavily reliant on people's fears of Demons and and and the devil basically which to be honestly I picked out this shirt before I even decided to watch the movie today So it's actually kind of this funny coincidence that I happened to wear this devil's milk barley wine shirt Really good beer by the way. So So, yeah, so it relies heavily on on religious Topics so it's about, you know demonic stuff and the devil and that's just not It's not it's one of the sub genres of horror that I really don't like and one of the big reasons is I'm not a religious person at all. So that type of stuff doesn't mean much to me And it certainly isn't scary to me But I do know a lot of people who are very much into religion and for that reason these type this sub genre of horror is Particularly scary and horrific to them because they believe this stuff is actually like can't happen in real life So and I could see through that lens when people come at it from that perspective Yeah, that would make this stuff very very scary because to them. It's like this could happen. This is crazy. So Like it's not for me, but I get it when people actually legitimately Legitimately sorry like this sub genre or are scared by the sub genre. I am not it's not a thing that that I really enjoy so the other thing that's in this that I really don't like in In life in general actually is ghost hunting. I feel like it also goes hand-in-hand with the whole religion thing I don't believe in ghosts or anything like that And I think that ghost hunting things are bunk in my opinion, you know, just my personal opinion I know a lot of people believe in it And I just don't I don't like the ghost hunting shows There's a ghost hunting aspect that comes comes into this film and I don't like those things. I think I Just don't like them. They're just not for me. It's not my thing But like I said, you know, there are probably some people out there who have already seen this film or will watch this film Or just like that works really well for me. I love it and that's great because film is experienced differently for everyone So go for it So it's interesting because there there are a lot of you know There are a lot of things that play in this film from a societal perspective and that's one thing that horror in particular does extremely well as a genre in general and this one kind of plays to the fears of Well, it's a movie that takes place kind of on the border of the United States and Mexico So it's interesting that it has these fears. So it has like it Sorry, I'm getting a little bit lost it plays on a fear particular to Mexican society and one particular to United States society and then one that shared So the one that shared is what I talked about with the religious stuff with the with the devil and and demonic things So that's the shared one the one's Mexico specific It plays on the fear of drug cartels and cartel violence now in the United States side It plays to the fear of mass shootings, which you know, both of these things are very very topical right now There's been, you know terrible Cartel violence in Mexico for quite some time. That is a legitimate fear There have been terrible mass shootings going on the United States for some time That is a legitimate fear. So I found it very interesting that they kind of took the individual fears and then one common shared fear It was just kind of a cool structure in my opinion for the film and I and I like that aspect of it There is like a little thing in this film that I was kind of like really Where some of the characters believed that they could they could kind of tell people Oh, this person went went crazier was violent or was a terrible person because they smoked marijuana and I'm just like I Mean Go go with something more believable like I don't know crack Heroin meth. I don't know something like that. That's it's more believable That's stuff can make people aggressive when when they're just like ah this person had marijuana when they did this violent thing Nobody believes that man. It's absurd. So it was it's a really small thing But to me I was just like what what is going on here? It just shows like being out of touch oh Like I already said the dialogue is a little iffy at times But I do think that the dialogue is much better towards the end. Maybe I said that already. I'm sorry if I did the film Yeah, yeah, no, sorry, I'm reading from my notes already covered that the film combining the two things I don't really like apologies. So they have a decent amount of CGI in this film and I feel like they did a pretty good job with the CGI and One of the things is they kind of knew their limits with it And this is one of the things that really really helps with independent film when you kind of know the limits of what you can Do and with their CGI they really knew that so there are times where they put a little bit extra into the CGI Because it was more lit and they did a pretty good job with it But then there were other times where they you know either for budgetary reasons I don't know or you know, they just didn't think they could really pull it off all that well They it wasn't as detailed, but they kept it darker So or or the shots of it were more brief So it's kind of like you couldn't sit there and like really Get a great look at it, but you got the idea of what was going on and it was effective So I really like the way they employed their CGI. I think they did a really good job with that and They actually had some really creepy and scary things that they did with the CGI that I felt were pretty accomplished Especially for an independent film. So good job So it does have its own twist on this whole kind of like religion demon thing But then I feel like it goes right back to Typical things that are in these types of movies So like it starts off kind of original doing its own thing Then we kind of get into like the ghost hunting the demonic stuff and I'm like, oh my god, this is so well-tread I'm kind of tired of this stuff and then they kind of throw in a little portion of the story where they're like But here's our take on it and I was like, okay, this is getting interesting I'm I'm interested to see where this goes and it stays interesting for a little bit And then I felt like for me it just started then just reverting right back to everything You've already seen in these types of films and I was just like, ah man originality's gone So there's some original originality in it for a bit, but then it just kind of I don't know for me It just Peters out And also I felt like it went on a little bit too long, especially at the end portion For people who are a big fan of this subgenre of horror. They may appreciate that because it's For some people I could see why one scene that's very drawn out towards the end would be very effective Being much longer. So you just have to watch it for yourself if you're into this subgenre in particular Because for this subgenre, I think they did a pretty solid job. I can really see people really enjoying this film I really like the set design in this and the locations they chose for filming I think they did a particularly good job there and Yeah, it just really helped with atmosphere for the film making it feel more immersive and creepier scarier more intense So good job on that One of the things that kind of bothers me from time to time It's fine a little bit in film, but the camera work was just really really shaky in this movie And that gets to me over time. It was a pretty consistently shaky It's just like please just use a tripod Like I understand it when it's like shots where like you have to move with people Because how else are you really gonna do it? So like if you're moving down a hallway or something like that or people are running I understand that's kind of what you have to do But in areas where it's like people are just like standing talking Use a tripod, please It really really helps and it kind of breaks it up from all that shakiness Maybe that doesn't affect other people as much as it affects me But at times it can make me a little bit nauseous to be honest The worst of which are these found footage films Especially like Cloverfield is the worst by far for me I got nauseous numerous times during that film Almost got a really bad headache too And yeah, I guess that's actually it for me covering this film Overall for me personally like I said I like The big disclaimer on this because of the way I feel about this subgenre and the topics in it Because of my personal rating of my five stars with half stars in play I want to give it two stars to be honest But because of my disclaimer because I know that I'm a little bit biased I'm gonna give it two and a half which puts me firmly in the middle So I don't really know which way I should go with it Was it quite was it well done or was it a little bit under At the least sorry at the least I think it's kind of solid I think they did a decent job with some things I already laid all that out and Tobin Bell is really good in this And I really like seeing him in it Yeah, I've met the guy before I know this is just kind of like I'm not trying to brag or anything But I go to horror conventions a lot and I ended up meeting Tobin Bell at one point And he's a very nice guy I know a lot of people in horror are very very nice people And he's no exception He's a really nice guy and it's good to see that he's still working Because he's awesome So, yeah Thanks everyone for checking this out Let me know your thoughts Have you seen Bell's a Booth? 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